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- Marguerite Duras (1799 bytes)
1: [[Image:Marguerite Duras.png|right|]]
3: ...'''Marguerite Duras''', was a [[writer]] and [[film director]].
5: ...[[dé°ˇrtment]]'', where her father's house was located.
7: ...on amour]]'', which was directed by [[Alain Resnais]].
9: ...ation to what is said may be more-or-less tangential. - Artemisia Gentileschi (23093 bytes)
1: ...s]]'' (1612-21) Oil on canvas 199 x 162 cm Galleria degli [[Uffizi]], Florence]]
3: ...ic themes were considered beyond a mere woman's reach.
5: ==Biography==
6: ===The Roman Beginning===
7: ...gio]] during that period, her style was just as heavily influenced in turn. - Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
1: [[Image:MaryPicford.jpg|right|frame|Mary Pickford]]
3: ...l." She became one of the [[Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood]].
5: ...dramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
7: ..., who insisted that she assume the stage name '''Mary Pickford'''.
9: ...reflected her own age, rather than teenage heroines. - Ayn Rand (18001 bytes)
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2: subject_name=Ayn Rand |
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4: ...hilosophy]] of [[Objectivist philosophy|Objectivism]]|
5: dead=dead | - Virginia Woolf (9482 bytes)
1: [[Image:VirginiaWoolf.jpeg|frame|right|Virginia Woolf]]
3: ...ciety and a member of the [[Bloomsbury group|Bloomsbury Group]].
5: ==Life and work==
7: ...re]], among others) towards doctrinaire rationalism.
9: ...ined some artists in this category, such as [[James Joyce]]. - Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
1: ...]]) was a pioneer [[United States|American]] [[aviatrix]].
3: ...Image:JacquelineCochran.JPG|thumb|Jacqueline Cochran]]
4: ...tigious salon in [[Saks Fifth Avenue]] department store.
6: ... Press]] named her "''Woman of the Year in Business''."
8: ... get [[Marilyn Monroe]] to endorse her line of lipstick. - Bessie Coleman (4340 bytes)
1: ...s. Coleman was married briefly to Charles Wilson Pankey.
3: ...t><tr><td>[[Image:BessieColeman.jpg]]</td></tr></table>
4: ...klahoma (now Langton University) until her funds ran out.
6: ...erican women because French women were pilots already.
8: ...y to promote his newspaper, and to promote her cause. - Marie Curie (5862 bytes)
2: ...tute|Curie Institutes]] in [[Paris]] and in [[Warsaw]].
4: ==Biography==
5: ...Sorbonne]], where she became the first woman to teach.
7: ...ie Curie announced the existence of this new substance.
9: ... other was named [[radium]] from its intense radioactivity. - Maria Callas (4931 bytes)
1: ...f Donizetti's opera ''Anna Bolena'', La Scala, Milan (1957)]]
3: ...le]]'' to late [[Verdi]] and the [[verismo]] operas of [[Puccini]].
5: ...uting greatly to the bel canto revival of the 1950s.
7: ...igher register that wobbled uncontrollably at times.
9: ...as a disaster due to Callas's almost-completely destroyed voice. - Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
1: ...peg|thumb|Ella Fitzgerald photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1940]]
2: ...provisational ability, particularly in her [[scat singing]].
4: ... York]]. She was left on her own as an orphan at age 14.
6: ...[[A Tisket A Tasket]]" that launched her to stardom.
8: ...new name, "Ella Fitzgerald and Her Famous Orchestra." - Billie Holiday (6766 bytes)
1: ...day photographed by [[Carl Van Vechten]], 1949</small>]]
3: ... difficult childhood which affected her life and career.
5: ==Early life==
7: ...ork]] with her mother sometime in the early [[1930s]].
9: ...to tell his then-girlfriend that Holiday was his daughter. - Janis Joplin (8673 bytes)
1: ...n the cover of her posthumously-released live album ''In Concert'']]
2: ... several bands from [[1967]] to a posthumous release in [[1971]].
4: ...began singing blues and [[folk music]] with friends.
6: ...reer, and her trademark beverage was [[Southern Comfort]].
8: ...being withheld until after their subsequent success. - Alanis Morissette (25762 bytes)
1: [[Image:alanis.jpg|thumb|Alanis Morissette]]
2: ...[singer-songwriter]] and occasional [[actor|actress]].
6: ...vril Lavigne]], and [[Kelly Clarkson]] among others.
8: ==The early years==
10: ... an older brother, Chad, and a [[twin]] brother, Wade. - Bessie Smith (7284 bytes)
1: ...pg|thumb|250px|Bessie Smith photographed by Carl Van Vechten]]
2: ...]] and [[30s]], and a huge influence on the singers who followed her.
4: ==Biography==
5: ...eputation in the South and along the Eastern Seaboard.
7: ... Smith]], [[Charlie Green]], and [[Fletcher Henderson]]. - Lucinda Williams (4182 bytes)
1: ...ight|Lucinda Williams on the cover of her album ''Sweet Old World'']]
2: ... named "America's best songwriter" by ''Time'' magazine in 2002.
4: ...for music at an early age, and was playing guitar at 12.
6: ... of her own material. Neither album received much attention.
8: ...ncluding [[Tom Petty]], who would later cover the song. - Sheryl Crow (8611 bytes)
1: ...thumb|''The Very Best of Sheryl Crow'' album released October 2003]]
3: ...ican [[blues rock]] [[singer]], [[guitarist]] and song writer.
7: ...make eye contact with the singer except when on stage.
9: ...r and improvise songs until they had finished works.
11: ...f the Year for "All I Wanna Do"; and Best New Artist. - Tori Amos (27672 bytes)
1: [[Image:Toriamos-dent.jpg|right|thumb|Tori Amos]]
3: ...pared to that of [[Kate Bush]], [[Bj?] and [[Joni Mitchell]].
5: ==Biography==
6: ===Early years===
7: ...ld her that she looked more like a Tori than a Myra Ellen. - Phoolan Devi (2526 bytes)
1: [[Image:Pd1.jpg|right]]
3: ...en''' was an [[India]]n [[dacoit]]-turned-politician.
5: ...d accumulated her own gang, with herself as the leader.
7: ... Massacre. She denied any involvement in the massacre.
9: ...nt, in [[1983]] she surrendered on a stage before a crowd of 10,000 people. - Bonnie and Clyde (17385 bytes)
1: [[Image:Bc10.jpg|thumb|Bonnie Parker]]
2: [[image:Bonnie_and_Clyde.jpg|thumb|200px|Bonnie and Clyde clowning.]]
3: ...on]], often with various members of the [[Barrow gang]].
5: ...ween 1931 and 1935, a period which led to the formation of the [[F.B.I.]]
9: ...d Bonnie was wearing Thornton's wedding ring when she died. - Mary Magdalene (15420 bytes)
1: {{christianity}}
2: ...of the historical Mary is a subject of ongoing debate.
4: ==Mary Magdalene in the New Testament==
6: ...nding to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God."'"
8: ...ding Mary of Magdala, who now returned to Jerusalem.
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